So the thing that kind of started everything up, my dad was a It wasn't program through. It's a T shirt. Uh, he focused on computer literacy. So that were processing skills or what? Not so he wouldn't allow me, Uh, you use it shows my age using a Commodore 64 because that's where he was using the teach a word processing techniques skills in this class and challenged me to, uh, write a program. I think you he knew basic, or you He came across a basic and wrote a for loop and may, uh, made the taste out, do some interesting things. And so he challenged me to do some just learn. And so, in the afternoons when I would be at school, you'd be great in assignments or whatnot that I've learned. Um, so this was about the age of seven. And because I didn't have anyone that was helping helping really affordable programming, Uh, at that time, Uh, really spent around? No. On not months to a year. Just it with a, uh, figure out having a computer, do anything. And then after a while, um, started, you understand a few things there was such a program at my school, Uh, started Teoh, uh, teach a little bit about programming. So I'm going to that from that. I started Teoh go into programming competitions. Uh, by the time amid toe height, uh, one of, uh, parents of one of my friends got me, uh, they shortlist to work and the actual, uh, company Texas Utilities. Um, and I Roath trading software. Uh, because it was in the company, had a trading division are corpora Korver shells, um, for the trading platform. And that's where I really started to understand. Would have meant to be a software developer on the context of a team. Well, I worked there. Act cool. I continued to work there while college help supplement some of the that lead. It costs Notorious University in Eastern Texas for college, mate. And, uh, you do science. Awesome agent electrical engineering. Uh, eventually went to grad school where I'm a piece D in applied math, computer science and focused on Jim Itch Meiling of I'm volumetric specialization, uh, that were coming in research in special effects industry for the character animation him from or other way to, like, astronomy and biomedical like instrument. Any work. So a postdoc at M. D. Anderson Cancer Treatment Center in Houston, Um, or cancer treatment. Planning that I went to Poland gas for a while, uh, relation taking these and pools of a bit announces on. Then I had a couple of crazy ideas for a start ups, and I want to market research. So I tried to apply a part time on the weekends to be a genius at the Apple store. Uh, that was quickly rejected, and at the time after it was, it has had me public it, but they're gonna break their contract Google and make their own maps product. So instead, they rounded me over to Cupertino to try to help them build their maps application from the ground up who happened to reset At the same time, I wanted to read that maps, and so on top of both of them at the same time. And in a boat with Google, you would have been a Google have worked out pretty much every geospatial application that I may want that the public were from maps distributed Google Earth and some that people aren't aware. Um, I've focused on intruding relation to rendering capabilities on those products across our platform. Atlanta render maps for quite a while and now lead the visualization services, the lay psst case and beckoned configuration services for our external Google Maps platform. So, like, if you have a arrives sharing app like uber and you see that man, that would be my team.

since the pandemic of things were different. But if you were to say before the pandemic, uh, I would travel, um, on a monthly basis, going between very sites. They, uh that my overall product area, which is dio I'm is based Inks do like collaborations with a number different teams. And what my role tends to intel these days is left direct hands on, uh, software development, Coping and mawr highlights say is social programming, but really making a clear, uh, partnerships with partnering teams. Uh, really trying to set a a vision nable to your vision for the organization to move toward trying to make sure that everyone this that's on team feels empowered. Teoh, um, to drive toward that common goal, uh, developed careers of people that were going to me Um, really review of high level assistant designs. Um, make sure that the team is tracking toward the goal in reasonable timeframes partner Other cross functional bigger shift. So, like cells or business development product go to market is to make sure that we are all on the same page so we can deliver high quality product, um, with deadlines that gets hold this thing fast ticket. Um, do you use Ah ah, higher level. At times of the the prototype, things kind of show the team where, uh, how did get past some substantially hard challenges that my require a lot of domain knowledge, but those the main doesn't make, uh, areas that focus on these days.

main challenges that are seen are face is really, really convincing strong will very opinionated, very smart individuals to move in a common direction. That tends to be the the hardest challenge that I face. And it requires, um, really understanding what is motivating people. Really Having a good understanding of how, um systems should, uh, should work together really may really continue to be informed of the main that you are a steward over. Uh, make sure that you have all the all of the facts of as many facts as G, as you can't get in order to, uh, build a narrative that's compelling or for people Teoh, it's a movie.